Ronald Chase is a self-taught artist that has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1964. He is the Director of the SF Art & Film Program for teenagers, now celebrating its 20^th year. He is recepient of 2 SECA Awards in film.  His work in photography, artist books, early sculptures and his abstract work all inform the ideas in the current series of grid paintings and work on paper from 2010-12. Paintings take the longest period of development, sometimes 10-15 years. He will be showing new work in Open Studios. Further info can be had on Wikipedia.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Bibliotecque Nationale, Paris
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Norrtalje Konshalle, Norrtalje, Sweden
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California

I work realistically, in fact I work from life. I've always painted and drawn from single point of view. I started to make drawings from muliple points of view. Now I'm painting the Estate Sales using multple points of view.

My preffered medium is dry pastel on paper, I am mastering and constantly challenging myself with it; I also paint.  I prefer to work in large scale or multiple surfaces at once: I always feel like there is not enought space on a piece of paper or canvas to "say & express" everything I want to.  

Instead of a full artist statement, which you can read on my website (www.elvira-artist.com), I would like to capture a thought about one of the works presented in this portfolio: esrevinu travelers: She Is Bridge.  Here goes it:

A woman of landscape - 
She acts as a bridge.
A bridge to a steep, deep
Canyon - the way to escape & a way to connect
To view the abstracted & the city's landscape.
She holds it together with her body, her flesh.
She holds them together: the edges, the earth;
She lays in the landscape relaxed yet steadfast.

For me, she is larger than I,
For her, she is taller than sky,
For them she is deeper than emerald, green, grey, blue & the high.

  My paintings are an ongoing exploration of the spaces where "inner" and "outer" meet, whether the setting be human or celestial. From the mysteries and metaphors that I find in familiar subjects, such as my ships and dancers, to my cosmological studies of a complex and seemingly impersonal universe -- in the heart of my creations lies the familiar made abstract, and the distant made intimate. 

A note on the "Inner Space" series:
I am fascinated with the analogy of space with human consciousness. The vastness of space, with its mysterious and oft-dazzling beauty, and the highly complex "inner space" of human consciousness form the focus of my work. Layers of color and texture illuminate my visions of planets and stars as points in a vast continuum, radiating life and emotion of their own. I think of each painting as the result of various “encounters” with these places, revealed in boldly colorful, multi-dimensional and sometimes sensual paintings that simultaneously evoke a sense of space intertwined with psychic tension. 
 

Rob Anderson is known for the emotive power and exquisite execution of his art.  Whether drawing, painting, or multi-media installation, content is of great importance to him.  He works primarily with the human figure rendered from life incorporating it into environments, both abstract and real, actual or imagined.

 In his first open studio in 20 years, Rob will be showing a selection of artwork spanning his professional career including works from the Man-in-the-Box series, the Pergamon Altar Project, Rattlesnake in a Moving Car: Life with HIV, and his iconic 1982 Gay Olympic Games print.

As an artist & designer, I see the world as a vivid fantastic version of itself. My goal is to create happiness through art inspired by architecture and nature with a hint of playful childhood memories.